Medical Biotechnology and Molecular Medicine

What is the objective of the course? What is it?
What does it train you for?

The learning objectives of the Master's Degree are to provide students with an integrated form of knowledge and understanding of cellular and molecular biotechnology and its application in medicine and research.

The aim is to deepen knowledge of the most innovative investigation techniques used in research and clinical laboratories.

To achieve these objectives, the course includes, in addition to frontal teaching activities, practical activities that allow the acquisition of knowledge and application skills.

This activity includes:

1. Classroom or laboratory exercises carried out as part of the lessons provided for in the Study Plan, during which students will learn about the procedures for using complex equipment and/or applying methods in use in different laboratories;
2. Curricular internship for a total of 11 months in laboratories where students will be actively involved in the development of experimental activities.

These activities will enable the student to improve his or her communication skills, scientific updating, working in a group and developing design ideas.

The course therefore aims to train a professional figure whose level of preparation will allow an effective placement in biomedical research activities able also to support the monitoring activities of clinical trials in their different stages of development.

What do you learn?

The graduated students in Medical Biotechnology and Molecular Medicine will have basic knowledge of human pathologies of medical and surgical interest, congenital or acquired.

The aim of course is to identify the best ways of using biotechnological approaches in both diagnostic and therapeutic fields.

Graduates will be expected to know and apply: the methodologies of cellular, molecular and gene transfer biotechnology in order to identify and validate novel therapeutic targets and diagnostic approaches for molecular medicine, oncology, regenerative medicine and biocompatibility; stem cell therapy technologies; applied technologies for the study of genomics, transcriptomics and proteomics; bio-materials techniques and nanotechnology applied to biomedicine; assisted human reproduction techniques.

The graduate will acquire: familiarity with the principles of experimental design on biological systems; good command of methodologies for accessing databases of biomedical biotechnology interest; ability to produce in vitro and in vivo experimental models for the development of new diagnostic and therapeutic approaches.

In addition, the graduate will be able to design and apply, in agreement with the graduate specialist in medicine and surgery, diagnostic and therapeutic strategies based on biotechnology in the areas of competence.

What can you do with it?

Thanks to the skills acquired in biochemical, bioinformatics, microbiological, immunopathological, oncology, metabolic and in the development of biotechnological drugs, the graduate in Medical Biotechnology and Molecular Medicine will be able:

1. To act as a researcher, research manager and/or consultant in the fields falling within the scope of human health protection such as pharmaceuticals, diagnostics, cosmetics or biomaterials, promoting scientific research activities, of technological development and/or scientific communication for the general public in structures of the National Health System;
in hospital companies; specialized laboratories, public and private; in universities and other public and private research institutions; in the biotechnological industry, Diagnostics and pharmaceuticals; in biotechnology service centers; in bodies responsible for the development of health and patent legislation in the field of biotechnology.
2. To participate in the competitive procedures for access to education in secondary school, both first and second degree, according to the regulations;
3. To continue its training activity by accessing national and international PhD courses, Masters of I and II level and the Specialization Schools of Medical Genetics, Clinical Pathology and Clinical Biochemistry, Microbiology and Virology, Health Statistics and Biometrics.
4. To practice as a freelance biologist, you must be in the relevant professional register.